UNIFORM | White after Labor Day

Yesterday I scored a white smoking jacket by The Row at a sample sale in Culver City. It got me thinking about wearing white year-round. Growing up in Chicago and living on the East Coast, it seemed out of the question, but in L.A. people seem more hip to wearing white all year-round. I know Garancé Dore's with me, ditto on Kirsten Dunst and Julia Leach of Chance who wears white jeans all year; but what do you think? Is white an all-season color now?

Depends how it's done: I think if you play with textures and different, thicker fabrics it can work. However, wearing it with pastels or bright colour blocking would scream summer for me. The best is a monochrome white/black look, and I think that is a great way to wear white all year round. Ditto with pastels: if you pick one pastel and wear all black on the rest of your outfit, I think it looks great in winter.